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More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, [7] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. [8] [9] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, [10] of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described. [11]
The World's 100 most threatened species [1] is a compilation of the most threatened animals, plants, and fungi in the world. It was the result of a collaboration between over 8,000 scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission (IUCN SSC), along with the Zoological Society of London . [ 2 ]
Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs .
Aye-aye, angelfish, aardvark? This list of amazing animals is A+ worthy.
The animal kingdom boasts some incredibly long lifespans that far exceed the average human's. While humans may have an "absolute limit" of 150 years, this is just a blink of an eye compared with ...
TIME released its list of the 100 Most Influential People for 2024 on Wednesday. The annual list, which asks cultural and political icons to highlight the changemakers of the past year, features ...
List of marsupials by population – Wombats, koalas and kangaroos. List of lagomorphs by population – rabbits, hares, and pikas. List of other Afrotheres by population – seacows, sengis, golden moles, otter shrews, tenrecs, hyraxes and the aardvark. List of rodents by population – cavies, squirrels, springhares, mice, beaver etc.
[14] [15] It later appeared on the 2012 list of the world's 100 most threatened species. [16] [11] [17] Blakea attenboroughii Penneys: Flowering plant: A plant native to the Andes of Ecuador, named "in honor of the great natural historian, Sir David Attenborough, whose fundraising efforts permitted the land where it was discovered to be ...